Wake me up when someone has created something exciting and forward-looking that I can heave up all over myself. I miss the good old days when we'd be working in the labs of elBuli, using expired produce that would make us explode with illness on a molecular level trying to discover the next big ugggggh. Food-borne illnesses that our parents could have only dreamed of.

I still haven't found the same thrill I did when I first yakked up his fondant of wasabi whipped caramel frond-smoked atomized Salmonella souffle with infused essence of dodo giblet tar and regret reduction.

That's when having food flying out of every orifice actually meant something.

Jiro Dreams Of McRibs:I'm glad food vendors were told food inspectors would inspect the first of the fair and one week later.

That way the vendors have a whole week to sell left-over product before another inspection, then another whole week to sell some more left-over product.

Inspections don't work when you tell the people when you're going to be inspecting them.

I don't want to talk about Maricopa County food inspection. It's farking scary.

Except that inspections don't actually take food from the restaurant/stand and test it for contamination. They look for issues with preparation, handling and storage procedures and equipment that could lead to contamination. Planned inspections are not as good as unplanned inspections but to say they don't work at all is a bit of an exaggeration.

Really? Really, someone would even find that thing appealing? It looks Godawful. Some sort of brown bun topped with a big ol' plumped up tape worm. Nice touch the server is wearing what looks like surgical gloves-maybe for personal protection. Maybe this is some sort of Sci-fi sort of set up? Eat this, 'n watch it chew through your stomach and breed with a hot dog???? I dunno, just really gross. That, and 200 people actually ordered it, ate it, and surprises of surprises-got sick.

HatMadeOfAss:That's what happens when your diet consists of fads. Eat regular food and leave the PBR-braised lobster tails with the artisan microbrew reduction to the douchebags in The Village.

A cronut is croissant dough deep-fried, with powdered sugar on top. It's not exactly haute cuisine. And you're a lot more likely to pick up food poisoning from the Golden Corral salad bar than from a real restaurant doing original things with interesting ingredients.

Artist:Really? Really, someone would even find that thing appealing? It looks Godawful. Some sort of brown bun topped with a big ol' plumped up tape worm. Nice touch the server is wearing what looks like surgical gloves-maybe for personal protection. Maybe this is some sort of Sci-fi sort of set up? Eat this, 'n watch it chew through your stomach and breed with a hot dog???? I dunno, just really gross. That, and 200 people actually ordered it, ate it, and surprises of surprises-got sick.

To quote/paraphrase middleoftheday, "People say life is short, submitter. But it isn't. Life is long and my god you have to take chances to keep your world interesting. Ride the cronut chicken lightning. "

LazyMedia:HatMadeOfAss: That's what happens when your diet consists of fads. Eat regular food and leave the PBR-braised lobster tails with the artisan microbrew reduction to the douchebags in The Village.

A cronut is croissant dough deep-fried, with powdered sugar on top. It's not exactly haute cuisine. And you're a lot more likely to pick up food poisoning from the Golden Corral salad bar than from a real restaurant doing original things with interesting ingredients.

Fried dough is neither of those things. However, a restaurant/food truck trying to make a nasty looking burger with faux poop on top is their attempt at "haute cuisine." So while your assessment of the high likelihood of getting food poisoning at Golden Corral is correct, it appears to be just as high at this establishment.

A Toronto Public Health (TPH) investigation into the incident found that a topping used on the burger was contaminated by Staphylococcus aureus toxin, a recognized cause of food borne illness. The TPH said the cause of the contamination was likely poor refrigeration. The burger was later voluntarily pulled off the menu.

Why was the burger pulled off the menu if it was a topping that made people sick? Or are they counting the donut as a topping?